TY - BOOK ID - 8582146 TI - Living standards analytics : development through the lens of household survey data AU - Haughton, Dominique. AU - Haughton, Jonathan. PY - 2011 SN - 1461403847 9786613352170 1283352176 1461403855 PB - New York : Springer, DB - UniCat KW - Cost and standard of living. KW - Cost and standard of living -- Statistical methods. KW - Household surveys KW - Cost and standard of living KW - Economic development KW - Business & Economics KW - Mathematics KW - Physical Sciences & Mathematics KW - Labor & Workers' Economics KW - Mathematical Statistics KW - Demography KW - Statistical methods KW - Statistical methods. KW - Comfort, Standard of KW - Cost of living KW - Food, Cost of KW - Household expenses KW - Living, Cost of KW - Living, Standard of KW - Standard of living KW - Statistics. KW - Statistics for Social Science, Behavorial Science, Education, Public Policy, and Law. KW - Statistics for Social Science, Behavioral Science, Education, Public Policy, and Law. KW - Statistical analysis KW - Statistical data KW - Statistical science KW - Econometrics KW - Consumption (Economics) KW - Home economics KW - Households KW - Quality of life KW - Wealth KW - Luxury KW - Prices KW - Purchasing power KW - Wages KW - Surveys KW - Statistics for Social Sciences, Humanities, Law. KW - Statistics . KW - Developing countries KW - Economic conditions KW - Emerging nations KW - Fourth World KW - Global South KW - LDC's KW - Least developed countries KW - Less developed countries KW - Newly industrialized countries KW - Newly industrializing countries KW - NICs (Newly industrialized countries) KW - Third World KW - Underdeveloped areas KW - Underdeveloped countries UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:8582146 AB - The purpose of this book is to introduce, discuss, illustrate, and evaluate the colorful palette of analytical techniques that can be applied to the analysis of household survey data, with an emphasis on the innovations of the past decade or so. Most of the chapters begin by introducing a methodological or policy problem, to motivate the subsequent discussion of relevant methods.  They then summarize the relevant techniques, and draw on examples – many of them from the authors’ own work – and aim to convey a sense of the potential, but also the strengths and weaknesses, of those techniques.  This book is meant for graduate students in statistics, economics, policy analysis, and social sciences, especially, but certainly not exclusively, those interested in the challenges of economic development in the Third World.  Additionally, the book will be useful to academics and practitioners who work closely with survey data. This is a book that can serve as a reference work, to be taken down from the shelf and perused from time to time. Dominique Haughton is Professor of Mathematical Sciences at Bentley University and Affiliated Researcher at Université Toulouse I. Jonathan Haughton is Professor of Economics at Suffolk University and Senior Economist at the Beacon Hill Institute for Public Policy. ER -